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Monkeys in Ubud
Disclosure: there are affiliate links on this page. If you click on a link, find something you like and buy it, I may get a small amount of commission at no extra cost to you. Sometimes you might even get a discount!Bali is known for being a beautiful, tropical...
Two Days in Singapore
Disclosure: there are affiliate links on this page. If you click on a link, find something you like and buy it, I may get a small amount of commission at no extra cost to you. Sometimes you might even get a discount!Singapore Changi Airport is at the edge of the city,...
Art and Architecture in Kaunas, Lithuania
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Southern Iceland: The Land of Ice and Fire part 2
The first few days of our trip to Iceland were spent in and around Reykjavik. The second part of our trip to Iceland began by hiring a car so we could drive to the hotel we had booked in the south of Iceland. Driving on the icy roads was a little daunting at first,...
Iceland: The Land of Ice and Fire part 1
Disclosure: there are affiliate links on this page. If you click on a link, find something you like and buy it, I may get a small amount of commission at no extra cost to you. Sometimes you might even get a discount!Iceland certainly lived up to its reputation as the...
Burma to Myanmar Exhibition
The British Museum is a fascinating place. It has so many displays you can't possibly see everything in one day, as well as a variety of constantly changing temporary exhibitions, with art, sculpture and artefacts from around the world. Its Burma to Myanmar exhibiton,...
Bowled Away at Tenpin, Milton Keynes
As a wedding gift, we got A Year of Dates set – a box of 52 sealed cards with an idea for a date on each one. The most recent one was all about going bowling, so we decided to give the new Tenpin bowling alley in Milton Keynes a try. Inside was bright and colourful,...
Shen Yun 2024
Shen Yun is a non-profit performing arts company with the mission of reviving traditional Chinese culture. Founded in 2006 in New York by a group of Chinese artists, Shen Yun now travels the world, performing classical Chinese dances and music against an innovative...
Bletchley Park, Home of the Codebreakers
When I tell people I live in Milton Keynes, England, they usually say one of three things. If they're not from the UK, they will usually say they have never heard of it; if they are from the UK they'll either say, "The place with concrete cows and all the...
New Year, New Intentions
This New Year I’m making intentions, not resolutions.
Microfiction Challenge
This is the fourth time I've entered one of the NYCMidnight writing competitions, and the first time I've placed in the top writers of my group and so advanced to the next round (I placed 11th out of the top 15 in a group of 63 writers). For each round, you are given...
A Year In The Making
A year ago today I left Shenzhen for a 3 week holiday in India, never having even an inkling that I wouldn't be able to go back to my home of 9 years. So many things have happened since then - some good, some bad, and pretty much all of them emotional in some way,...